From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: LAN Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:40:01 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20031225232557.01f06748@celine> References: <20031226064427.267.qmail@web21403.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20031226064427.267.qmail@web21403.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 12:44 AM 12/26/2003 -0600, Jose Colmenares wrote: >I just installed Slackware. It's working fine and >smooth. I also have three machines runing Windows (one >XP and two 98). These are conected through a LAN. =BFHow >do I configure my new linux system to recognize the >network and comunicate to it? it does not even >recognize the LAN card. =BFdid I miss something during >the configuration? Most likely you did. Exactly what you missed is hard to say. For more=20 specific help, please tell us: 1. What version of Slackware? 2. What version of the Linux kernel? ("uname -a") 3. What network interface card (NIC) are you using in the system? 4. How do you know "it does not even recognize the LAN card"? Just so *= we*=20 can be sure, what is the complete output of "ifconfig -a" (run it as ro= ot)? I'm not a Slackware user myself, but there are many Slackware users her= e=20 (though the holidays may keep them away from email for the next little=20 while). If I can't answer you after you provide the additional informat= ion,=20 I'm sure one of them will be able to after seeing it. I should mention = that=20 Slackware is in many ways different from the other main Linux distros, = so=20 the remainder of what follows is something of a guess on my part, based= on=20 the way Debian, the distro I use, does things. I'm not sure how Slackware sets up networking these days, but the usual= way=20 with Linux is to put the information needed to set up an interface in=20 /etc/networks/interfaces ... your NIC would be entered there as eth0.=20 You'll enter either the usual sorts of info about IP address, netmask,=20 gateway, and such, or you will enter here that the interface gets=20 configured by DHCP (depending on how your network is actually set up). If you are entering the information by hand, then you'll also want to e= nter=20 the IP addresses of the DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf ... if you are=20 using DHCP, then the DHCP client (which might be pump, dhclient, or dhc= pcd)=20 can update this file from the lease info it gets. The boot/init process should use this information to set up your=20 networking. If not, you can (usually) use the command, as root, "ifup -= a"=20 to start networking manually. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs